Lucinda Everett, Horatia Harrod and Alastair Smart guide you through the year
ahead in film, music, art and more.

Consider these biopics the anti-Lincolns. Paul Raymond, founder in 1958 of the Raymond Revuebar, built a property empire on the gyrations of nude dancers. Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love (March 8) stars Steve Coogan as this titan of the Soho sex industry, who ended his days a recluse; Imogen Poots plays his daughter and presumptive heir, Debbie, who died of an overdose in 1992. Linda Lovelace was another pioneer of pornography, starring in Deep Throat, the film which helped to bring porn into the mainstream in 1972. Lovelace (spring) features Amanda Seyfried as Linda and Peter Sarsgaard as her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, whom she later accused of having coerced her into making the films that made her notorious. Charles Dickens was no Traynor, of course, but The Invisible Woman (autumn), directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, exposes a less-than-spotless side of the writer’s life: his decades-long affair with Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), whom he met when he was 45 and she was 18. Michael Douglas and Matt Damon make a lovely couple in Behind the Candelabra (spring), director Steven Soderbergh’s take on Liberace’s relationship with his assistant. If you prefer your legends untarnished, try Ron Howard’s Rush (above, Sept 13), about the rivalry between racing drivers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl).

2) The Spies of Warsaw Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais’s handsome two-part adaptation of Alan Furst’s gripping 2008 thriller is a story of love, espionage, diplomacy and deceit in the run-up to the Second World War. David Tennant stars as an aristocratic French military attaché to Poland (BBC One, Jan 9).

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3) Cloud Atlas David Mitchell’s 2004 novel spanned five centuries, four continents and a multitude of genres; somehow, the director-trio of Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski have wrestled it into film form. Their cast play multiple parts, which is how we get to see Halle Berry as a snaggle-toothed Korean man and Hugh Grant as a futuristic body-painted cannibal (Feb 22).

4) Quartermaine’s Terms Simon Gray’s tragicomic play about seven dysfunctional teachers in a school in Sixties Cambridge might not be one of 2013’s most uplifting shows. But with Richard Eyre directing, and Rowan Atkinson playing the inept Quartermaine, it promises to be one of the best (Wyndhams Theatre, Jan 23 – April 13).

5) Memory Palace: A Walk-In Book Outspoken novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru’s latest work of fiction will be transformed into an immersive experience this summer as graphic designers and illustrators interpret different passages (V&A, June 26 – Oct 20).

6) MIDLIFE CRISES

Time to spare a thought for Hollywood’s ageing male execs, who – like indulgent parents – have been obliged to bankroll all those frenetic teen-oriented 3D superhero movies. But in 2013, Middle-Aged Man takes a stand, with several comedies centred on tubby fortysomethings who haven’t fully adapted to the demands of adult life. Expectations vary within this male-menopause cycle. The Hangover Part III (opening May 24) and The Internship (July 4), which drops Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson into an internet start-up overrun by bratty Zuckerbergs, clearly fall somewhere close to the lower end. More promising is This is 40 (Feb 14), the generally reliable Judd Apatow’s “sort-of-sequel” to 2007’s Knocked Up, which has the latter film’s terrific supporting act of Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann negotiating more bumps in their enduringly turbulent relationship. And in The World’s End (Aug 14), Simon Pegg and Nick Frost try to recreate an epic pub crawl from their hell-raising youth. But the most grown-up look at midlife ennui can be found on TV. Each episode of Louie (Fox, January), written by and starring US comedian Louis CK (above) as a socially awkward single father in New York, is a tragi-comic masterpiece worthy of Woody Allen in his prime.

7) GREAT LEAPS FORWARD

Next year the line between humans and technology begins to fade. Google has been working on Project Glass, a pair of web-connected, voice-activated glasses that project things like maps, weather forecasts, text messages and video calls into your field of vision without the use of a smartphone. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has a pair, natch, as does Diane von Furstenberg, who has sent models wearing the glasses down the catwalk. They may be available to non-millionaires next year, costing around $1,000 (£620). Similar glasses may also accompany the next generation Xbox (late 2013), allowing video game characters to step out of the screen and into your living room. An indie alternative to the Xbox is the Ouya console (spring), which offers an open gaming platform. You may not be able to play Grand Theft Auto V (May, 360/PS3), or the revamped Tomb Raider (March, 360/PS3/PC), or the arty Ellen Page-starring mystery Beyond Two Souls (May, PS3), but at around £60, who cares? Towards the end of the year Virgin Galactic is expected to blast its first passengers into space. Tickets cost around £121,000, and if that’s not enough to deter you, it's worth noting that fellow astronauts may include Ashton Kutcher, an early advocate of the project. Back on Earth, Amazon will likely continue its quest for world domination by launching its first Kindle-like smartphone.

8) Cultural craic In 2013 Derry-Londonderry becomes the inaugural UK City of Culture and there is plenty planned. Highlights include Lumiere, a nocturnal winter festival of lights (Nov), and The Return of Colm Cille, a huge city-spanning event to celebrate the city’s founding father on his feast day (June 9). It’s written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, whose Olympics opening ceremony collaborator Danny Boyle later appears at the Foyle Film Festival (Nov). See cityofculture2013.com

9) Oz The Great and Powerful Another filmic response to L Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, this one tells the back-story of the Wonderful Wizard himself. James Franco stars as the amoral Kansas magician who will become the big man, while Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz play Oz’s witches. Directed by Spider-Man trilogy’s Sam Raimi and costing a rumoured $200 million, this should be spectacular (March 8).

10) Atoms for Peace This most super of supergroups, consisting of (among others) Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, release their delayed and much-awaited debut album Amok on Feb 15. The experimental rock and electronic outfit also have a tour in the offing next year.

11) Small screen, big stars Set in Fifties Dublin, Quirke stars Gabriel Byrne playing a hard-nut pathologist (BBC One, autumn), while Kevin Bacon is a traumatised former FBI agent chasing the killer he jailed nine years earlier in The Following (Sky Atlantic, Jan). If spiky loners aren’t your thing, catch Hilary Swank opposite Brenda Blethyn in Mary & Martha (BBC One, March), the story of two women bonded by bereavement.

12) Juergen Teller Teller is one of very few artists who have been able to operate successfully in both the art world and the commercial. This exhibition fuses the two strands of his career, offering a seamless journey through his landmark fashion work from the Nineties, including classic images of Lily Cole, Kate Moss and Vivienne Westwood, as well as more recent landscapes and family portraits (ICA, Jan 23 – March 17).

13) America saves the world Is Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (Jan 25), an insider-y account of the decade-long pursuit of Osama bin Laden, a glorious thriller or tasteless American propaganda? See also: Jack Ryan (Dec 26), in which Chris Pine fights Russkis as Tom Clancy’s eponymous hero; A Good Day to Die Hard (Feb 14), which has Bruce Willis reprising his role as John McClane, this time in Moscow; and White House Down (Sep 6), in which John Cale (Channing Tatum playing Bruce Willis playing John McClane) defends the president (Jamie Foxx) from paramilitary invaders.

Photo: Andrew Cooper

14) Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino's new Western promises bloodshed and controversy aplenty. Click here for a full report from the set.

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Critics' picks - Film

15) Lincoln Steven Spielberg resumes the historical strand in his filmography with this stately drama. Daniel Day-Lewis, already gathering best actor gongs in his stovepipe hat, is Honest Abe, pushing for emancipation while putting off his trip to the theatre. Opens Jan 25.

16) The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald’s novel drops into the lap of Moulin Rouge!’s Baz Luhrmann, a film-maker who certainly knows how to throw a party. The bright young things include Leonardo DiCaprio (as Gatsby) and Carey Mulligan (as Daisy); and, for some reason, it’s in 3D. Opens May 17.

17) Hitchcock Anthony Hopkins dons latex chin(s) to play the legendary film-maker in Sacha Gervasi’s drama, which observes Hitch at work and play during the making of Psycho. Helen Mirren is his long-suffering wife Alma; Scarlett Johansson, shivering in the shower, plays Janet Leigh. Opens Feb 8.

18) No An anti-Mad Men, with Gael García Bernal as René Saavedra, the advertising whizz whose campaign helped oust General Pinochet from power in Chile. Director Pablo Larraín shoots with Eighties telecameras: the real ad spots come to merge thrillingly with the fiction. Opens Feb 8.

20) Colombian Gold The British Museum and the Gold Museum of Bogotá are teaming up for a show of 150 works made in the most precious of metals. As well as unalloyed aesthetic delight, expect a retelling of the myth of El Dorado, the legendary “Lost City of Gold” that fascinated European explorers for centuries. (British Museum, from Sept 12).

21) Saint Lou Lou When Swedish-Australian twins Elektra and Miranda Kilbey (above, right) released their debut single, the slow synthy Maybe You, last summer they set musos everywhere salivating, and not just over the sultry video by fashion director Philippe Tempelman. Currently working on an album for release next year, this doe-eyed, razor-cheekboned pair are going to be everywhere (saintloulou.com).

Photo: Frank Masi

22) LATE BLOOMERS

If next year’s crop of silver-haired film heroes is anything to go by, it’s not just experience that comes with age, but weapons training, the cast-iron constitution of a university student and a talent for throwing spectacularly diva-ish fits. In Red 2 (Aug 2), Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren return as retired CIA operatives ready to put down another batch of villainous young upstarts, while in Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet (Jan 1) the sparring is all verbal, as the residents of a retirement home for musicians find their annual concert jeopardised by the arrival of a new prima donna (Maggie Smith). The warbling continues in Song For Marion (Feb 8), which sees incurable grump Arthur (Terence Stamp) take his wife’s place in the local choir when she becomes ill; and on the hunt for altogether less wholesome activities are Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, who star as sexagenarians heading to Sin City for a final bachelor party, in Last Vegas (Dec 20). Also on De Niro’s slate is The Comedian (winter) in which he stars as an ageing funny man sentenced to community service for hitting an audience member. Reigning queen of comedy Kristen Wiig plays the fiery woman sent to shake up his life, while Sean Penn directs. And in Stand Up Guys (Feb 1), Al Pacino is a con man gathering his old gang for a fling that could prove very final indeed, when he’s tasked with killing one of its members.

23) Much Ado About Nothing After a chemistry-filled turn on stage together in last year’s Driving Miss Daisy, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones reunite as verbal jousting partners and reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick. One other tiny detail: it’s being directed for the Old Vic by Mark Rylance. Join the queue, quickly (Sept 7 – Nov 16).

24) Looking at the View Ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous (J M W Turner to Tracey Emin), this Tate Britain show will showcase British landscapes over the past 300 years. As well as spotting continuities, it’ll hopefully explore the role that landscape scenes have played in shaping the nation’s cultural identity (Feb 12 – June 2).

25) Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker – Tatyana It’ll be a weepy winter at Covent Garden, where the year begins with both Royal Opera and Royal Ballet performing a Eugene Onegin. Most interesting of all, though, for Pushkin lovers, may be Deborah Colker’s Tatyana at the Barbican: her acrobatic reading of the novel-in-verse (Jan 31 – Feb 9).

26) Hay-on-Wye Festival The first speakers to be announced for this year’s festival offer a dose of double dealing and dirty tricks: Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein will be talking about America past and present, while John le Carré makes his Hay debut (May 23 – June 2).

27) Robot & Frank A charmingly oddball heist film with Frank Langella as an ex-jewel thief struggling with dementia. When his son gives him a robot-butler to look after him, Frank is unimpressed... until he realises this robot can pick locks (March 8).

28) Joe Wright changes tack Best known for his Oscar-nominated adaptations of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice, film director Wright turns to theatre, directing the romance Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar, Feb 15 – April 13) then A Season in the Congo, about independence leader Patrice Lumumba (Young Vic, July 6 – Aug 10).

29) Sarah Lucas After this year’s excellent Gillian Wearing show, the Whitechapel Gallery is to stage a major retrospective of another female YBA: the wildest partier of all, Sarah Lucas. With her fried eggs, old tights and casts of a boyfriend’s penis, for some she’s plain vulgar. For others, she’s recast the very language of sculpture (Oct 2 – Dec 15).

30) The Shard From Feb 1, those with the curiosity and the stomach for it can be whisked in a turbo-powered lift to the top floor of the Shard, the tallest building in Europe, which offers an unrivalled 40-mile panorama of London and its environs. It costs £24.95 for adults, £18.95 for children (theviewfromtheshard.com).

31) Catch them while you can American television’s powers-that-be have made some strange decisions of late. Most annoyingly, cancelling Boss, in which Kelsey Grammer plays the dementia-suffering Mayor of Chicago. You can see it on More4 next spring (but prepare to feel bereft). Also brilliant but possibly not long for this world are social comedy The New Normal (childless gay couple, wide-eyed surrogate and her meddling grandmother) on E4 in January; and Nashville, a musical drama about a fading country legend and the bitchy pretender to her throne (More4, spring).

Photo: Masayoshi Sukita/ The David Bowie Archive

32) GLAM ROCK

A V&A show about David Bowie’s fashion legacy seems such a brilliant idea one can’t believe it wasn’t thought of before. Or perhaps it was, but only now is the star-man granting curators access to his vast personal archive of photographs, original costumes, set designs from tours, and much more. Among the highlights of the tricksily titled David Bowie is will be 1972’s Ziggy Stardust bodysuits designed by Freddie Burretti, as the show tries to keep up with Bowie’s chameleonic style shifts across five decades (V&A, March 23 – July 28). Tate Liverpool’s Glam!, meanwhile, will aim to set Bowie’s rise in the context of the androgynous, glitter-dappled movement he was once part of. Art by the likes of Hockney, Warhol and Cindy Sherman will appear beneath mirror balls and strobe lighting (Feb 8 – May 12). As for all those who preferred the Glam movement once it evolved into New Romanticism, the good news is that January sees the release of Adam Ant’s first album since 1995: Adam Ant is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter.

33) Mass Observation: This is Your Photo Established in 1937, Mass Observation was an intriguing social survey that aimed to create an “anthropology of ourselves”. For 20 years the team of observers and volunteers amassed details concerning the lives, opinions and habits of the British people. This will be the first display of the archive’s photographs (Photographers’ Gallery, Aug 2 – Sept 29).

34) Bridget Jones the Musical After losing their leading lady Sheridan Smith earlier this year, the musical about Helen Fielding’s singleton was thrown into confusion. But the troops rallied and the show (scored by Lily Allen) is now expected to open at the Savoy next winter.

35) Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 600-1900 Need help telling your Tang dynasty from your Shang dynasty? Fear not, because this V&A exhibition will provide a crash course in Chinese history through the prism of its painting and calligraphy. Expect birds, flowers and many other marvellous manifestations of yin-yang (From Oct 26).

36) Dancing on the Edge Stephen Poliakoff’s new BBC Two drama follows the fortunes of the Louis Lester band, jazz musicians finding an audience among upper-crust London society in the early Thirties; Chiwetel Ejiofor plays the dashing bandleader; Matthew Goode and Anthony Head also star (Jan).

Photo: Johan Persson

Critics' picks - Dance

37) Bolshoi Ballet A clutch of high-profile foreign visits in 2013 includes the Boston Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and a wallet-sapping, three-week residency by the Bolshoi. The Moscow company are at Covent Garden (July 29 – Aug 7) with a programme of bankable classics (Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère) – as well as less familiar work, such as Vasily Vainonen’s action-packed Flames of Paris.

38) The Great Gatsby The craze for adaptations of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel shows no sign of passing. Northern Ballet is to unveil David Nixon’s The Great Gatsby (West Yorkshire Playhouse, March 2 – 9, then touring), set to music by Richard Rodney Bennett, with designs by Jerôme Kaplan (of Raise the Red Lantern fame).

39) Aladdin David Bintley’s Aladdin, scored by Carl Davis and originally made for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, gets its much-anticipated UK premiere with Birmingham Royal Ballet (Birmingham Hippodrome, Feb 15 – 23, then touring).

40) The Rite of Spring The Rite’s 100th birthday provides the perfect excuse for Sadler’s Wells to revive Michael Keegan-Dolan’s acclaimed version for Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (above, April 11 – 13), as well as commission iTMOi, an exploration of ritual and sacrifice by contemporary Kathak star Akram Khan. Sadly, although Pina Bausch’s company is back for another Wells visit (in Feb), her legendary Rite of Spring will not be on the menu.

41) Marguerite & Armand The hottest Royal Ballet tickets will be for the return of bad-boy Sergei Polunin, who will partner Tamara Rojo in her farewell performances with the company in Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite & Armand (Feb 12 – 23).

By Louise Levene

Photo: Getty Images

Critics' picks - Classical

42) Woven Words One of the 20th century’s most influential composers, Warsaw’s Witold Lutoslawski was born 100 years ago and is celebrated in a project under Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Taking concerts Europe-wide, the series opens in London (Jan 30) with the Piano Concerto played by its dedicatee, Krystian Zimerman. (Southbank Centre, Jan – March).

43) Lulu Berg’s masterpiece opens the first of Welsh National Opera’s themed seasons, Free Spirits. Directing his first new production since becoming WNO’s boss, David Pountney explores Lulu’s surreal rise and downfall in a Twenties setting. Marie Arnet sings the title. (Cardiff and on tour, Feb – April).

44) Verdi/Wagner With so much – and so little – in common, the 19th century’s two greatest opera composers were born in 1813. Expect tennis-match neck as Verdi and Wagner are constantly compared in their bicentenary year. Highlights are Nabucco and Don Carlos at Covent Garden, and Parsifal and the Ring at the Proms, the latter conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

45) The Rest is Noise A major journey setting 20th-century music in wide context, this year-long festival opens with an all-Strauss programme featuring the London Philharmonic under Vladimir Jurowski and ends with John Adams’s “nativity oratorio” El Niño (Southbank, Jan – Dec).

46) Brahms cycle German musical culture runs through the veins of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They’ll be in residence at the Barbican under Riccardo Chailly for a cycle of Brahms’s symphonies and concertos, where their magnificently warm and weighty sound should prove ideal (Barbican, Oct).

By John Allison

47) Vermeer and Music “If music be the food of love, play on,” says Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. And certainly, in the paintings of Vermeer and his contemporaries, there’s more than a hint of amorousness connected to musical activity. This National Gallery exhibition will look at the complex role that guitars, virginals and lutes played in 17th-century Netherlands (June 26 – Sept 8).

48) Glyndebournefarewell After 13 years at the helm, Vladimir Jurowski bows out as music director of Glyndebourne by conducting a new production of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (May 18 – July 11).

49) Medieval miniseries Intrigue, incest, fratricide, mad monks and manipulative women: Game of Thrones fans are almost certain to relish a 10-part version of Philippa Gregory’s chronicle of the Wars of the Roses, The White Queen, starring Max Irons and Janet McTeer, which airs on BBC One in the spring. Meanwhile on Channel 4 Ken Follett’s fictionalised version of 14th-century England, World Without End, becomes an eight-part miniseries with Cynthia Nixon (Jan 12).

50) Playing Cards: Spades Robert Lepage, the visionary Canadian, brings a story of sex, drugs and shock and awe to London’s Roundhouse (Feb 7 – March 2). Set in Las Vegas in the days before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it’s to be the first in a series of four plays.

Photo: Hans Wild

51) THE BENJAMIN BRITTEN CENTENARY

Billed as the biggest-ever global celebration of a British composer, Britten 100 has already been gathering considerable steam in anticipation of the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. Leading opera companies and orchestras in 140 cities across 30 countries are participating, and events will go far beyond the music itself – two major biographies are being published, and the Royal Mint is even producing a new 50p coin depicting Britten. As the composer of some of the most approachable serious music of the 20th century, Britten’s art has world-wide appeal, and international premieres will take place from Chile to China. All 14 of Britten’s major operas will be performed in the UK, and next summer’s Aldeburgh Festival sees a production of Peter Grimes “on location” on Aldeburgh Beach, plus landmark stagings of all three Church Parables in Orford Church, the scene of their premieres. In the autumn, Opera North will present a season of four Britten operas, but the most eagerly anticipated event is a rare new production of Gloriana at Covent Garden, where the work fell flat at the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. Expect a different reception now for Richard Jones’s staging and Susan Bullock in the title role. For more details see britten100.org.

52) Ice Age Art Who knew reindeer antler or mammoth ivory could be quite so captivating? This British Museum exhibition will present some of the world’s oldest known sculptures, dating back 30,000 or so years to the last Ice Age. It’ll also include modern responses to such pieces by Picasso and Henry Moore (Feb 7 – May 26).

53) Australia The UK’s first survey of Australian art in 50 years. Taking the Aussie landscape – and its power to inspire fear as well as awe – as its theme, this Royal Academy show will cover two centuries of art, including work by Aboriginal artists and the earliest European settlers (Sept 21 – Dec 8).

54) Les Misérables The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper has made quite a departure from his cosy study of our stuttering monarch. His latest film is an epic adaptation of the stage musical, with cast members singing live, rather than miming to a pre-recorded score. It’s impressive, if harrowing stuff; Anne Hathaway’s brutally raw performance as Fantine is the highlight (Jan 11).

55) A Midsummer Night’s Dream If you sobbed for all the right reasons through the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse but sobbed for all the wrong ones through Spielberg’s film, you’re in luck. The team behind the former (Bristol Old Vic’s artistic director Tom Morris and the Handspring Puppet Company) are reuniting to stage Shakespeare’s fairy-filled comedy (Feb 28 – May 4).

56) Mr Selfridge Hoping to attract the six million people who watched BBC One’s The Paradise – and a few more to boot – ITV premieres its own department store drama. With a transmission date yet to be confirmed, it stars Hollywood’s Jeremy Piven as the American tycoon behind the store, and is expected to deliver glamorous costumes and dramatic storylines like they’re going out of fashion.

57) THE RETURN OF SILLY

This year may have been full of Jubilee street parties and Olympic smugness, but when it came to culture things were decidedly gloomy. Leonard Cohen released an album, for pity’s sake. Thankfully, 2013 offers plenty of the irreverent and downright juvenile. If you like films that tread the line between funny and offensive, try Movie 43 (Jan 25), a comedy with intertwining storylines and a surprisingly heavyweight cast, including Kate Winslet and Richard Gere. Fans of South Park must see The Book of Mormon the first Broadway musical by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, previewing at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre from Feb 25. Winner of nine Tony Awards, it follows two missionaries struggling to convert Ugandan villagers. For lovers of lamp, the wait is over: Will Ferrell returns as newscaster Ron Burgundy in Anchorman 2, due late 2013, while Harry Hill’s patient fans will be rewarded with his first tour in six years (Feb 7 – April 11). In The End of the World (June 28), Emma Watson and other celebs lark about as “themselves” in a film about an apocalyptic party at James Franco’s house. And the comeback-kid story takes a silly turn in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (March 15) – Steve Carell is a has-been magician taking on a hip newcomer (Jim Carrey with highlights) – and Cuban Fury (March 22): Nick Frost as a former salsa prodigy. Need we say more?

58) Bad bankers Murky goings-on in Manhattan’s financial district in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (winter), based on the memoir of rogue stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who’ll be played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Meanwhile Richard Gere will star in Arbitrage (Mar 1) as a fraudulent hedge-fund manager facing his personal day of reckoning.

59) Top of the Lake Holly Hunter and Jane Campion, star and director of The Piano, reunite for a dark six-part thriller about the disappearance of a drug dealer’s daughter. Elisabeth Moss and Peter Mullan also feature (BBC 2, date to be confirmed).

60) Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen’s evergreen novel celebrates its bicentenary next year, an event to be marked by a 24-hour readathon at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath (Jan 28, janeausten.co.uk), an exhibition at Jane Austen’s House Museum (Jan 28 – May 31, jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk), and a stage adaptation at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park (June 20 – July 20).

61) Lichtenstein: A Retrospective Think you have the measure of Roy Lichtenstein? In his most comprehensive ever exhibition, Tate Modern will aim to prove there was much more to the Pop Art pioneer than comic-strip imagery and Benday dots. He was, apparently, a lover of art history and in later life mastered female nudes and Chinese landscapes (Feb 21 – May 27).

62) Man of Steel Yes it’s another reboot. Yes it’s another comic book superhero film. But from the recently released trailer, this new take on Superman looks very good. Directed by Zack Snyder (Watchmen) and produced by Dark Knight trilogy director Christopher Nolan it follows Clark Kent (British actor Henry Cavill) through childhood as he struggles to come to terms with his gifts (June 14).

64) The return of Game of Thrones As Theon and Tyrion fell dramatically from grace, so Dany and Tywin have begun their rise. Will Brienne get Jaime to King’s Landing in one piece? And how will Robb Stark’s treachery towards the Freys be rewarded? And if that weren’t enough, the undead “Others” have made their debut via a terrifying army on the march. Do your best to keep up with series three, now starring Diana Rigg (Sky Atlantic, April).

65) Treasures of the Royal Courts When it comes to Anglo-Russian trade and cultural diplomacy, you can draw a (very long) line back from Roman Abramovich to the founding of the Muscovy Company. This V&A exhibition celebrates 500 years of exchange, focusing on the chivalric, ruby-studded relationship between the two nations’ royal families (March 9 – July 14).

66) A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev In the 75th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his death, there’ll be numerous tribute programmes to the globe-trotting great of feline dancing. English National Ballet’s will probably be among the best of them (London Coliseum, July 24 – 26).

68) The Audience Dame Helen Mirren reprises her Oscar-winning turn in the title role of Peter Morgan’s film The Queen with the same writer’s intriguing new play. It imagines meetings, held in the strictest confidence at Buckingham Palace, between the Queen and her prime ministers, from Churchill to Cameron (Gielgud Theatre, Feb 15 – June 15).

69) Peter and Alice The inaugural season of Michael Grandage’s new theatre company – with its mission to make quality theatre available at realistic prices – got off to a strong start this month with Privates on Parade. The jewel in the crown, however, is Dame Judi Dench’s return to the West End in John Logan’s new play. She plays Alice to Ben Whishaw’s Peter in this enchanting exploration of the real life character that inspired Peter Pan (Noël Coward Theatre, March 9 – June 1).

70) Once A success on Broadway, Once is the tale of an Irishman and an Eastern European girl, who meet in Dublin and tell the story of their ensuing love affair through songs they write in a traditional Irish pub (Phoenix Theatre, March 16 – Nov 30).

71) The Cripple of Inishmaan Daniel Radcliffe stars in this wry drama about what happens when Hollywood film-makers arrive on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland and offer the chance of a new life to a young handicapped man (Noël Coward Theatre, June 8 – Aug 31).

By Tim Walker

Photo: Trustees of the British Museum

Critics' picks - Art

72) Pompeii & Herculaneum Forget the sexed-up centurions and emperors we’re used to seeing on our screens. This exhibition will present Roman life as it was really lived – with 250 objects from the ill-fated cities buried by Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79 and frozen in time for our fascination (British Museum, March 28 – Sept 29).

73) Manet I lose track of the number of artists for whom the title “father of modern art” has been claimed, the latest candidate being Édouard Manet, who gets his biggest UK show ever.The Railway, painted in 1863, is among the star loans, though the main focus will be on portraits (Royal Academy, Jan 26 – April 14).

74) Murillo Rehabilitation for the 17th-century Spaniard is long overdue – though, for many, there’s just no forgiving his saccharine Holy Families. Perhaps a new show at Dulwich Picture Gallery (about his friendship with Don Justino de Neve, canon of Seville Cathedral) will finally change things. The famous enfilade is being transformed into a would-be Sevillian church (Feb 6 – May 19).

75 LS Lowry After a celebrity campaign by fellow Lancastrians, accusing the Tate of anti-Northern bias, Lowry gets a major retrospective. It’ll reconsider his role as chronicler of city life in early-20th-century, industrial Britain (Tate Britain, June 25 – Oct 20).

76) Henry Moore/Auguste Rodin Another year, another major Moore exhibition, this time pitting him against the pioneering Rodin. Showing in such august company should expose Moore as a good, but not great, sculptor – and then we need see no more of him for a while (Henry Moore Foundation, Mar 29-Oct 27).

By Alastair Smart

77) Mad Men What do we know about the penultimate series, airing in spring on Sky Atlantic? Nothing; the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, is being typically tight-lipped, so we are left to analyse leaked pictures from the set – Don and Megan go to Hawaii (still married, despite what the final shot of the last series may have wanted us to believe), Peggy wears a navy blue suit. The next few months cannot pass quickly enough.

78) Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg & Johns You might reckon Marcel Duchamp to have been the Antichrist, after whom art sped relentlessly down a conceptualist dead end – and you’d probably be right. But this Barbican show looks at the lesser-known influence he had, after moving to the US, on forthcoming greats across all art-forms (Feb 14 – June 9).

79) Royal baby In 2011, we had The Royal Wedding. Next year, it’s The Royal Wedding 2: Baby on Board, an event to be marked with the traditional flurry of street parties and Union flag bunting. A few things are certain: that the child, whatever its gender, will be third in line to the throne; and that William Hill is offering odds of 1000/1 that its parents will name it Chardonnay.

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80) LOST IN SPACE

If you were one of the sci-fi film fans left underwhelmed by this year’s big release, Prometheus, 2013 may provide some recompense. Gravity, the delayed thriller from Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón, which sees George Clooney and Sandra Bullock stranded alone in space, finally hits screens this autumn. Meanwhile, three films explore the idea of an abandoned future Earth. In Oblivion (April 12), Tom Cruise, the last member of a team extracting vital resources from the planet, discovers Earth’s evacuation wasn’t as thorough as he thought. In After Earth (June 7), Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan has Will Smith and his son Jaden crash landing onto Earth 1,000 years after it was abandoned, only to find that every remaining life form has since evolved to prey on humans. Most exciting, though, is Elysium (Sept 20) from director Neill Blomkamp, whose first feature film, District 9, tackled segregation and xenophobia sci-fi style. His next offering follows Max (Matt Damon) as he tries to unite a divided human race, where the rich live in an opulent space station and the poor fester on a ruined Earth. On May 17, Star Trek Into Darkness hits screens and fanboys can finally stop hyperventilating over whether or not Benedict Cumberbatch plays cult villain Khan. And in Ender’s Game, Asa Butterfield (last seen as the title character in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo) plays a gifted child sent to an army training school in space to prepare for an alien invasion. Harrison Ford also stars (Oct 25).

81) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Given the success (and subsequent Broadway transfer) of Matilda the Musical, a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Oompa Loompa-filled story was bound to follow. But the announcement that its director would be Skyfall’s Sam Mendes has taken the hype to a whole new level. Next year’s hottest ticket is a golden one (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, May 18 – Nov 30).

82) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Jennifer Lawrence returns as bow-wielding, dictator-defying Katniss Everdeen in part two of the trilogy based on Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novels. Having outwitted the Capitol in her first Hunger Games she must now prepare to fight to the death again, this time against 24 victors from previous Games (Nov 22).

83) U2’s next album Rumours have been flying for a good few years about a new release from Bono and the boys, and they’ve covered all bases – they’re recording a club album, no, a meditative record. No, they’re working with Danger Mouse (Grammy-nominated producer, not cartoon hero). What will be released is still unclear but, come winter 2013, we should have something in our hot little hands.

84) The Turn of the Screw British horror brand Hammer is taking on theatre with a stage adaptation of Henry James’s 1898 ghost story novella. A governess takes a job on a remote estate, only to find it’s haunted by the ghosts of employees past. Let’s hope it’s the next Woman in Black (Almeida, Jan 18 – March 16).

85) Vicious We could barely believe it when we saw that Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, two of our greatest acting knights, were starring in a studio sitcom on ITV1. But, wondrously, it’s true: they play a bickering old couple, their best friend is played by Frances de la Tour, and the script is written by Mark Ravenhill and Gary Janetti, a writer-producer on Will & Grace and – ahem – Family Guy. The working title was Vicious Old Queens, which gives a flavour (late spring).

86) Paul Klee He’s best remembered as Kandinsky’s pal, Bauhaus teacher and quirky painter of suspended fish. But Tate Modern seeks to recall, instead, the radical Klee, exiled by the Nazis for his “degenerate” art (Oct 15- Mar 9).

87) The Counselor Michael Fassbender plays a lawyer dabbling in drug trafficking in this film based on The Road author Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay. Directed by Ridley Scott, it also stars Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, and Brad Pitt dressed as what looks like a cowboy car salesman (winter).

88) Chagall: Modern Master For those of us who missed the Tate’s last major Chagall exhibition, in 1948, here’s a chance to familiarise ourselves with the Russian-Jewish émigré’s dreamlike remembrances of his home village of Vitebsk. Mind the blue cows leaping pink moons (Tate Liverpool, June 8 – Oct 6).

89) Old Times Harold Pinter’s typically enigmatic but charged study of human relations will be the first of his plays to be performed at the renamed Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly the Comedy Theatre), with a suitably stellar cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Rufus Sewell and Lia Williams (Jan 12 – April 6).

90) Zombies If your supernatural leanings tend towards the undead, 2013 has a couple of filmic gems. Warm Bodies (Feb 8) is a zombie romcom (yes, really) with the brilliant Nicholas Hoult as a zombie whose warm and fuzzy feelings could redeem the entire lifeless world. World War Z takes itself a little more seriously, with Brad Pitt battling (single-handedly, if the trailer is anything to go by) to stop the spread of a zombie pandemic (June 21).

91) Two Macbeths Two major outings for the Scottish play next year, both with marquee names in the title role: James McAvoy will play the bloody Thane of Glamis at Trafalgar Studios (Feb 9 – April 27), while Kenneth Branagh takes on his first Shakespearean role for a decade at the Manchester International Festival, with 17 performances in July.

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92) WALT DISNEY WORLD

To his fans, Walt Disney was the greatest storyteller of the 20th century, a man of grandfatherly benevolence. But to others “Uncle Walt” was an altogether more malevolent figure. Philip Glass’s satirically titled new opera, The Perfect American (June 1 – 28) explores this darker side. The ENO production will offer up a “nightmarish” iconoclastic vision of Disney, examining the accusations of racism, anti-Semitism, McCarthyism and cryogenic head-freezing that have bedevilled his legacy. Needless to say it has not been made with the blessing of Walt Disney Studios; the same is not true of Saving Mr Banks (above). Released in December, it tells the story of the surprisingly acrimonious making of Mary Poppins, where Disney (played by Tom Hanks) clashed with the crotchety and controlling PL Travers (Emma Thompson), author of the original books. Travers reportedly wept with dismay at the film’s premiere, although it would make her a rich woman. Meanwhile, the company that bears Walt’s name continues to go from strength to strength. Next year Walt Disney Animation Studios release Wreck-It Ralph (Feb 8), a CGI animation about a computer game baddy trying to come good, and Frozen (Nov) a traditional animation based on Han Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. There’s a new Pixar film, Monsters University (July 12), as well as the live-action China-set Iron Man 3 and The Lone Ranger (Aug 9), with Armie Hammer in the mask and Johnny Depp as Tonto, plus a possible end-of-year treat in the form of a sequel to last February’s The Muppets, this time with added Ricky Gervais.

93) Man Ray Portraits One of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation, Man Ray has never had an exhibition devoted entirely to his portraiture. Until now. A show at the National Portrait Gallery (left) will include more than 150 prints from between 1916 and 1968 and feature famous names alongside intimate portraits of friends and lovers. Pablo Picasso, Ava Gardner, Lee Miller, Henri Matisse, Wallis Simpson and Coco Chanel are highlights (Feb 7 – May 27).

94) The Portrait in Vienna 1900 Prepare for a Viennese whirl at the National Gallery from October 9, when the avant-garde portraits of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka et al are set in the context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s rise and fall. Did the artists sustain long-standing traditions or sunder them?

95) Jude Law in Henry V It’s once more unto the breach for Jude Law, in a new production at the Noël Coward Theatre (Nov 23 – Feb 15), bringing to a close an almost impossibly lustrous season directed by Michael Grandage (michaelgrandagecompany.com).

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96) Kraftwerk The Tate Modern’s vaulting Turbine Hall seems like the ideal venue for German electronic music’s most luminous ambassadors. Their first London dates since 2004 will find Kraftwerk – plus animatronic sidekicks – working their way chronologically through eight studio albums on consecutive nights (Feb 6 –14, tate.org.uk/kraftwerk).

97) Glastonbury Festival With no Diamond Jubilee or Olympic torch procession to brighten up the summer of 2013, the West Country behemoth will have a lot of cultural space to occupy. With rumoured appearances by both The Rolling Stones and Stone Roses (June 26 – 31, glastonburyfestivals.co.uk).

98) Serafina Steer With a waspish lyrical sensibility which offsets her harp’s celestial shimmer, Steer (above) will launch her third album, The Moths are Real, with a show at St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch (Jan 24, serafinasteer.com).

99) Eminem Detroit’s dirty-mouthed bard of domestic dysfunction is to release his eighth solo album. And if it’s anything like as good as his last one – 2010’s Recovery – his headline shows at this summer’s Reading and Leeds festivals should be special (eminem.com).

100 Roger Waters Fellow former members of Pink Floyd may raise a rueful eyebrow at the prospect of Waters embarking on a huge stadium tour with The Wall, as his reluctance to do so in the early Eighties was a major factor in the band’s break-up. But that’s no reason why everyone else shouldn’t enjoy this monolithic entertainment (Wembley Stadium Sep 14,rogerwaters.com).